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Samsung Galaxy S11 tipped to support 8K video recording w/ Snapdragon 865

Just yesterday Qualcomm released the first details about its new Snapdragon 865 processor and one of the most interesting details is its ability to power 8K video recording. Now, a new source is corroborating details about the Galaxy S11’s ability to record video in 8K. Sources speaking to  say that the Samsung Galaxy S11 will support up to 8K video…
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Researchers develop AI that reads lips from video footage

AI and machine learning algorithms capable of reading lips from videos aren’t anything out of the ordinary, in truth. Back in 2016, researchers from Google and the University of Oxford detailed a system that could annotate video footage with 46.8% accuracy, outperforming a…
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Augtera raises $4 million for AI-driven network management

Augtera today announced that it raised $4 million for its operation that takes data from datacenter networks to create AI systems for management and optimization. The money will be used to grow Augtera’s engineering and research and development teams and accelerate product adoption. Augtera uses network domain knowledge and semantics, together with data from a variety of sources, to train its…
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The PlayStation 3 was Blu-ray’s ultimate Trojan horse

As the PlayStation 3 came to market in 2006, prices of HDTVs were falling. More consumers were looking to upgrade the big screen in their living rooms. And so the entertainment industry was eager to move on from DVD and rerelease films in hopes that people would “double…
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Motorola One Hyper unveiled with 64MP main, 32MP pop-up selfie camera and 45W charging

The Motorola One Hyper just went official and it claimed many “firsts” for a Moto phone – more than you would expect from a mid-range device. This is the first time Motorola has built a phone with a pop-up camera. The 32MP sensor (0.8µm pixels, 1.6µm with pixel binning) also makes this the highest resolution selfie cam on a Moto phone. Similarly, the 64MP sensor inside the main camera on the…
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Google’s Focus mode is out of beta on Android 10 and has arrived on Android 9 Pie phones

Focus mode, one of Google’s many features aimed at keeping you from distracting yourself on your phone, is out of beta in Android 10. It actually debuted as a beta within the existing Digital Wellbeing feature when Android 10 launched earlier this year, so no additional downloads are necessary to try it out. Additionally, Focus mode is now available for people with phones running Android 9…
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